DJ Kay Slay, was an American disc jockey and record executive from New York City.
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DJ Kay Slay was originally a prominent graffiti artist, having been featured in the 1983 hip hop documentary, Style Wars.
With the decline of the graffiti movement in the late 1980s, DJ Kay Slay began dealing with narcotics and consequently ended up in jail by the late 1980s but he was released from jail in 1990, and claims to have abstained from using drugs ever since.
DJ Kay Slay is referred to by The New York Times as “Hip Hop’s One-Man Ministry of Insults”.
DJ Kay Slay released four studio albums, The Streetsweeper, Vol. 1, The Streetsweeper, Vol. 2, The Champions: North Meets South (with Greg Street), and More Than Just a DJ.
In Jan. 2022, DJ Kay Slay was hospitalized with COVID.
According to music manager Wack 100, the New York DJ and record executive was on a ventilator fighting for his life.
“Pray for my brotha @djkayslay,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “It’s not looking good. He might be mad at me for this those that know Slay but he needs all the support he can get … Been 14 days fighting COVID and he’s just be put on a ventilator. Keep him in your prayers please.”
Sadly, DJ Kay Slay died of complications from the disease on April 17, 2022, at the age of 55.
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